PEKIN — A $330 an hour Peoria psychiatrist, who would be on the clock while he drives to and from Henry County Jail for an evaluation of defendant Brian Broadfield, could go through the federal stipend for his services too quickly to be practical.

“That’s a problem,” U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm said Tuesday.

Mihm is overseeing a defense attorney’s efforts to arrange for an evaluation on whether Broadfield is mentally fit to aid in his defense against the charge that he took part in a meth-making conspiracy in Pekin. Earlier he was found mentally fit.

Broadfield was among three people charged 14 months ago. He likely faces at least 10 years in prison if convicted.

Defense attorney William Holman suggested Tuesday the psychiatrist’s trip to Cambridge, about 80 miles northwest of Peoria, would not leave enough of the $2,300 in federal funds available to pay for the psychiatrist’s work.

Broadfield was moved to Henry County because “Tazewell County doesn’t want him in their institution,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tate Chambers told Mihm after consulting briefly with a marshal in Mihm’s Peoria courtroom.

“He’s been kicked out of Tazewell,” Chambers said. The Peoria County Jail also is not readily available to take him, Mihm heard. Broadfield was “a difficult inmate to manage,” Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston said when informed of Chambers’ comments.

The decision to transfer Broadfield to Henry County, however, came from the U.S. Marshals Service, which oversees his custody, Huston said.

“We’ve had a long and good relationship with the marshals office,” he said. “If they ask us to hold (Broadfield), we’ll hold him.”

Broadfield requested the evaluation last week without his attorney’s involvement.

Mihm set a July 28 hearing to review Broadfield’s request for a second opinion.